To provide a refrigerator can respond to temperature control during production of homemade food and temperature control to prevent early quality deterioration of fermented food.

When operation start of specific operation modes (reproduction-fermentation mode, fermentation-burning mode, cold amazake (sweet sake) mode, warm amazake mode) with respect to an operation part 71 is detected, an MPU 61 sequentially sets a target temperature of a storage compartment (switch compartment) of which setting temperature can be changed to a plurality of predetermined processing target temperatures, maintains setting with respect to each processing target temperature only for a predetermined time, then, sets a predetermined preservation target temperature finally, and controls a switch compartment inlet damper 41, a switch compartment outlet damper 42, a switch compartment fan 32 and a heater 51 within the switch compartment in accordance with a comparison result of the sequentially set target temperatures and detection temperatures by a temperature sensor 52.